Neutrino detection in salt domes under LOFAR

摘要

Large volumes of natural materials are presently under study to construct a telescope, which will be used to search for v's at the highest energies. Although these high-energy v's have not been discovered yet, firm predictions for their existence have been made. The very origin of these high-energy v's remains one of the burning questions in astroparticle physics. We consider the use of huge salt domes in the shallow underground of the north-eastern part of the Netherlands as a possible site for such a high-energy v telescope. Initial measurement of the attenuation length for radio signals at 03 and 1.0 GHz will be reported. The physical location of the domes and the envisioned research program has a strong overlap with those of the new radio telescope LOFAR.